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Title: Gaining Ground
Subtitle: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm
Author: Forrest Pritchard
Narrator: Roger Wayne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-30-13
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 893 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars' worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family's farm. What ensues - through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters - is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard's biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son's career choice and rejects organic foods for sugary mainstream fare. But just when the farm starts to turn heads at local farmers' markets, his father's health takes a turn for the worse. With poetry and humor, this inspiring memoir tugs on your heartstrings and feeds your soul long after you've finished.
Critic Reviews:
"By the end of his wonderful book, Pritchard lies in a field pondering his own slim margin of success from slowing things down in our fast paced world; a well-deserved moment of happiness for this important new spokesperson of the future of agriculture and poet of the earth." (
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
"Roger Wayne's warm, lively reading of Forrest Pritchard's memoir of saving his family's farm in the Shenandoah Valley is a hopeful and conversational experience.... integrity is heard in Wayne's performance." (
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